The Right Needs a New Message on Income Inequality

By

Benjamin Domenech

Apr 28, 2014 7:31 pm ET

Few French economists have achieved the kind of adulation Thomas Piketty has experienced recently from the media and the left. Within the context of the American political scene, Piketty’s dour predictions for the future of capitalism and his call for a “utopian” global wealth tax fit perfectly with the left’s frame of an inequality message.

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